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G. D. DOWKONTT.

INDIVIDUAL GONDIMBNT HULDER.

Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS;

p UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. DOWKONTT, OF NEW YoEK,'N. Y.

INDIVIDUAL CONDIMENT-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,400, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed Februar'yl2,188fi. Serial No. 191,770. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. DOWKONTT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Individual Condiment-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of my improved condiment-holders. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same and of a plate to which it is applied. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, part of the plate being broken away.

The object of this invention is to provide individual condimentholders constructed in such a manner that they can be set on a table or upon the brim of a plate.

Theinvention consists in a condiment-holder made with one or more recesses in its upper side to receive a condiment, with its lower side inclined, and .with a downwardly-project ing flange along the shallower side edge, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents an individual condimentholder, which may be made of porcelain or other suitable material. In the upper side of the holder A are formed one or more recesses, B, to receive condiments. The lower side of the holder A is inclined laterally, and along the shallower side edge of the said holder is formed a downwardly-projecting flange, C, of such a depth that its lower edge will be upon a level with the bottom of the deeper edge of the said holder, so that the said holder when placed upon a table or other horizontal sup port will stand level. This construction adapts the holder to be placed upon the brim of a plate, D, as illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, the

inclined bottom of the holder resting upon the upper side of the said brim,and the flange O resting against the outer edge of the brim.

The holderv A is preferably made with a slight curve, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to correspond with the curvature of 'the edge ofan ordinary dinner-plate.

With this improvement the condiments are kept from becoming accidentally mixed with the food, and can be readily applied to the food in any desired quantity.

I am aware that it is old to employ a condiment-holder having one or more dish-like 5; compartments provided with a handle at one side and a fork-like clip on the lower side for attaching it to the rim of a plate; also that it is old to employ a saltcellar adapted to rest upon the inclined rim or flange of a plate and having a spring-clamp fitting over the outer edge of said plate, rim, or flange and bearing against the under side of the latter. The objections to these constructions are, in one instance, that projections extending be 6 yond the plate or holder are present in the form of the handle, as is also the case with the forkiike clip, and in the other instance that the contrivance is required to be sprung upon the plate, while in my invention the contriv- 0 ance is held upon the plate by a simple downwardly projecting flange, which latter also serves as a foot or support for one edge of the holder when removed from the plate, in order to retain the holder in a level position to prevent the spilling or wasting of its contents.

Havingthus described my invention,l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- An individual condiment-holder, A, made substantially as herein shown and described, So with one or more recesses, B, in its upper side to receive condiments, with an inclined lower side to rest upon thebrim of a plate, and with a downwardlvprojecting flange, G, along its shallower side edge to rest against the edge of 8 5 a plate and to serve as a foot to the holder, as set forth.

GEORGE D. DOWKON'II.

Witnessesr JAMES T. GRAHAM, EDGAR TATE. 

